“Republican congressional leaders opened some room Sunday for a longer-term deficit reduction agreement that eventually could blunt the effects of the $85 billion in automatic spending cuts now in place,” Roll Call writes. “But in appearances on the Sunday talk shows, Speaker John A. Boehner, R-Ohio, and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., insisted that any revenue from a tax overhaul would have to be reserved for reducing tax rates and not used to fund government spending or lower the deficit.”
‘Hell-bent…’: Lindsey Graham: "John [McCain] and I are hell-bent on making sure the American people understand this debacle called Benghazi," Graham said on CBS’s Face the Nation. "I'm trying to find out what happened on that night so we won't have other Benghazis, and I'm not going to vote for Brennan until the CIA … lets us know who did it and why and we have a picture of what happened in real-time."
Menendez watch: “Sen. Robert Menendez sponsored legislation with incentives for natural gas vehicle conversions that would benefit the biggest political donor to his re-election, the same eye doctor whose private jet Menendez used for two personal trips to the Dominican Republic, an Associated Press investigation found. The disclosure reflects the latest intersection between the New Jersey Democrat who is the subject of an ethics inquiry on Capitol Hill and the Florida doctor involved in a federal criminal investigation.”
